Mary Austin

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Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)

Mary Austin American Literature Sites
Foley Library Catalog

The Land of Little Rain Site created by the students in Prof. David Teague's Spring 1996 criticism class at the University of Maryland includes annotations of Chapter I and contemporary reviews of the book. (Photograph is courtesy of this site.)
Mary Austin's home in Inyo County, California.
"Mary Hunter Austin" from A Literary History of the American West.
Teaching strategies for Austin's works from the Heath Anthology site.

Works (at the University of Virginia)
E-book and Palm versions of Austin's essays on Native American subjects at the University of Virginia
"The Mother of Felipe." Overland Monthly n.s. 20 (Nov. 1892): 534-538.
"The Wooing of the Señorita." Overland Monthly n.s. 29 (Mar. 1897): 258-263.
"The Conversion of Ah Lew Sing." Overland Monthly n.s. 30 (Oct. 1897): 307-312. (illustrated)
"Inyo,"Overland Monthly, July 1899. (poem)
"The Gods of the Saxon," The Independent 52, 26 April 1900: 996. (poem)
"A Shepherd of the Sierras." Atlantic Monthly 86 (July 1900): 54-58.
"The Pot of Gold." Munsey's Magazine 25 (July 1901): 491-495.
"A Pipe Of Oaten Straw," Cosmopolitan 33 (May 1902):79. (poem)
"Jimville: A Bret Harte Town." Atlantic Monthly 90 (1902): 690-694.
"The Little Coyote." Atlantic Monthly 89 (1902): 249-254.
"The Search for Jean Baptiste," St. Nicholas 30 (September 1903): 1024+. (illustrated)
"The White Hour." Munsey's Magazine 29 (April 1903): 88-92. (translation)
The Land of Little Rain (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,1903) (illustrated HTML from the University of Virginia)

HTML at Berkeley

Illustrated HTML at the Library of Congress

"The Basket Maker." Atlantic Monthly 91 (1903): 235-238.
"The Little Town of the Grape Vines." Atlantic Monthly 91 (1903): 822-25.
"A Land of Little Rain." Atlantic Monthly 91 (1903): 96-99.
"The Last Antelope." Atlantic Monthly 92 (1903): 24-28.
"Mahala Joe." Atlantic Monthly 94 (1904): 44-53.
"The Hoodoo of the Minnietta." Century Magazine 74 (July 1907): 450-453.
"The Return of Mr. Wills." Century Magazine 74 (1907): 244-247.
"The Walking Woman." Atlantic Monthly 100 (1907): 216-220.
"Spring o' the Year." Century Magazine 75 (April 1908): 923-928.
"The Woman at Eighteen-Mile." Harper's Weekly 53, 25 Sept. 1909: 22-23.
"Agua Dulce." Harper's Weekly 53, 28 Aug. 1909: 22-23.
"Bitterness of Women, "Harper's Weekly 9 October 1909 (illustrated)
"Medicine Song to be Sung in Time of Evil Fortune," McClure's 37 (September 1911): 504.
"Indian Songs," Forum 6 (1911) (translation)
"An Appreciation of H. G. Wells, Novelist," American Magazine 72 (October 1911). (illustrated)
"The Song-Makers" 1911 (no journal title given)
"The Song of the Hills: Being the Song of a Man and a Woman Who Might Have Loved."McClure's 37 (Oct. 1911): 615.
"The Song of the Friend." McClure's 38 (Jan. 1912): 351.(translation)
"Frustrate."Century Magazine 83 (Jan. 1912): 467-471.
"Medicine Songs," Everybody's Magazine, September1914
"Art Influence in the West," Century 89.6 (April 1915) (essay) (illustrated)
Reviews of Mary Austin's Work
"The Realism of Mary Austin" and "A New Definition of Genius" 1912. Rev. of Mary Austin's A Woman of Genius, Current Literature 53, Dec. 1912 698-9.
Mary Austin. Chronicle and Comment section of the Bookman 35 (Aug. 1912): 586.
"A Woman of Genius" by Mary Austin. Review, 1913.
Lincoln Steffens, review. "Mary Austin" (1911)

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